The chateau of the Mercerie, at Magnac-Lavalette-Villars, in the Charente department, is better known as Rethoré’s folly, after the brothers who began to build it in the 1930s but quickly ran out of money. The building was never finished, and the facade still stands guardian over the attractive gardens surrounding it.

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